Semester 1 vocab.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 absolute location | the exact position of a place on earth's surface expressed in latitude and longitude |
| aquifer | an underground water reservoir |
| barrier island | an island that protects the main body of land from the ocean waves |
| climate | the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time |
| cultural diffusion | borrowing and integrating ideas specific to one group of people into the culture of another group |
| drought | dry period in which little, if any, precipitation falls, often causing extensive damage to crops |
| environment | surroundings that include physical, social, and cultural conditions |
| escarpment | a steep cliff |
| fault | a weak place in the earth's crust |
| geography | the study of the spatial aspects of earth and the people who live on it |
| irrigation | a way of supplying water to an area of land |
| norther | icy wind that blows in quickly from the North |
| plateau | a broad, level landform that has escarpments on at least one side and higher elevation than the surrounding land |
| prairie | large area of level or rolling land with grass but few or no trees |
| relative location | the location of a place in relation to other places using north, south, east, or west |
| sandbar | a ridge of sand built up by currents in a river or coastal waters |
| springs | where water flows from the ground and meets the surface of the earth |
| valley | a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river between hills or mountains |
| human-environment interactions | how people use, adapt to, or change their surroundings and how the physical environment often affects humans |
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